Box-hook.



No. 687,137; Patented Nov. l9, I90l. B. n. nnuzn.

BOX HOOK.

(Application filed Sept. 5, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BERNERD D. DRUEN, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Box-HooK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,137, dated November19, 1901. Application 1116a $eptember a, 1901. Serial m. 74,452. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BERNERD D. DRUEN, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Box-Hooks; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the figures ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification,and represent, in-

Figure 1, a View, partly in side elevation and partly in section, of ahook constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan viewthereof partly in horizontal section; Fig. 3, a view in end elevation ofone of the modified forms which the handle-piece may assume.

My invention relates to an improvement in box-hooks, the object being toproduce a simple and effective hook constructed with particularreference to strength.

With this end in view my invention consists in a box-hook having certaindetails of construction,as will be hereinafter described, and pointedout in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown the but-end of the hook 2is inserted into a socket 3, formed in the downwardlyturned arm 4 of ahandle-piece, which also comprises a reach 5 and two longoppositelyextending handle-arms 6 6, formed integral with the saidreach, which is formed integral with the arm 4. The hook 2 is secured inplace in the socket 3 of the arm 4 by means of a pin 7 or in some otherequivalent manner, while the handle-arms 6 6 have a wooden grip 8secured to them by means of two long rivets 9, the outer ends of whichare headed down in washers 10, let into the surface of the said grip 8.

In the modified construction shown by Fig. 3 of the drawings thehandle-arms 6 6 of the construction above described are replaced 4,5

by a single tubular handle-arm 11, which also dispenses with the use ofthe independently formed grip, such as: the wooden grip 8 of theconstruction first described. The single arm 11 is made integral withthe reach 12, which in turn is made integral with the arm 13, having asocket 14 for the reception of the butt-end of the hook proper, 15.

My invention is not, of course, limited for use in the construction ofbox-hooks, but

may be used wherever advantageous in the construction of portable hooks.

In view of the modifications shown and described and of others which mayobviously be made I'would have it understood that I do not limit myselfto the exact construction shown and described, but to hold myself atliberty to make such changes as fairly fall within the spirit of myinvention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a hook, the combination with the hook proper, of a handle-piececomprising an arm formed with a socket to receive the buttend of thehook, a reach, and a handle-arm, the said socketed arm, reach andhandle-arm being formed integral with each other.

2. In a hook, the combination with the hook proper, of a handle-piececomprising an arm formed with a socket to receive the butt end of thehook,'a reach, and two oppositelyextending handle-arms, the saidsocketed arm, reach and handle arms being formed in tegral with eachother; and a grip which is fastened to the said handle-arms.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses. v

BERNERD D. DR UEN.

Witnesses:

FEEDERIQ G. EARLE, CLARA L. WEED.

